Consciousness has been defined as "individual awareness of your unique thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations and environment." Your own unique consciousness lives in a series of brain cells, or neurons, which, when fired in certain patterns, cause you to recall memories and emotions - even smells and sounds.

A new technique to create a single-molecule diode has been developed by scientists, and, in doing so, they have developed molecular diodes that perform 50 times better than all prior designs. This research group is the first to develop a single-molecule diode that may have real-world technological applications for nanoscale devices.

The mystery of the avatar who looks like Benedict Cumberbatch deepens: Darius Godric not only looks like actor playing the BBC's latest incarnations of Mr. Holmes, but he's build out an incredibly detailed recreation of the show's 221B Baker Street....